OOPNP French-Speaking Skilled Workers Stream

[deep_blue77]

I do understand that. I am undergoing the same now. I had to wait 8 month for ICAS ECA (unable to activate my EE) and suddenly things are moving just within days. So I am just curious what mistakes will I do.
Best luck to all.

Dear Vensak,

After a small research of "procedure easiness" and "speed", I decided to do the ECA thing with WES and it came back in a month or so. No problems really, except the 75 CAD fee to send the ECA copy to OINP, which I've found very expensive. They're just sending e-copies/e-mails or access codes to OINP that's all. I doubt if they actually send a physical copy of the ECA to them.

But you were right, I also had to impatiently wait for a while to get all things together (TEF, IELTS, ECA) in order to open up the EE Profile. Waited like 2 months from decision to take the exams until clicking My CIC to fill out the EE form. But after that things went really fast except for my stupidnesses.

So best of luck to you and please double/triple check your package contents and even do it with a printed checklist page, document by document...

By the way, FYI, I choose French as first language and "All Territories" while doing the EE thing. The PT NOI came the same evening, 3 hrs after

 

[Riadh21]

Dear Vensak


I advice to do the ECA thing with WES also, they fastest and the best and even in term of pricing they are good also

 

[maleeksha]

And the funny thing is that I did triple check everything and made sure that I do not do any of the mistakes previous applicants did, which caused their package to return. At least now I can claim that I'm the first one who forgot DOB & name on pic

Regarding stupid things we've done during our application, I totally agree with you. Because of the sudden rush to dispatch the package to the carrier and because of the adrenaline and excitement, sometimes we do overlook even the basic things like signing the form, writing the DOB on the back of pictures or double/triple checking all the documents like passport, cheque etc before packing.

 

[Aal_]

And the funny thing is that I did triple check everything and made sure that I do not do any of the mistakes previous applicants did, which caused their package to return. At least now I can claim that I'm the first one who forgot DOB & name on pic

well look at the bright side, because of you i wrote my name and dob on all my pics i have in the house, lol

 

[vensak]

I have a different question now regarding passports.
My passport is newer than 2 years, but our law is requesting to always return old document to the police department (they will be distroyed after that).
So I got new passport in 2015 but I starded Canada planning only in 2016.
This said there is no way I could forward copies of my old passport. Was anybody else in similar situation and how did you solve it?
I have already found the exact law that is requesting to return old passport to the police Office (but only in Slovak).
Thank you in advance for any advice.

 

[Damocles]

Welcome to the forum deep_blue77 and congratulation EDEN7 for your AoR I have updated the list with your details.
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	Forum Name		NOC		Docs@OINP		AoR		Nomination		Additional Info / comments
1.	rajkamalmohanram		......		05-Nov-15		11-Feb-16		17-Oct-2016		Human Capital Priority Stream
2.	BC4life		0125		19-Nov-15		11-Mar-16		06-Oct-16
3.	figaro2		......		25-Jan-16		20-Aug-16		in process		File returned and Resubmitted on 17-Jul-16 => Got AOR after that!
4.	blebelle		6221		14-Apr-16		26-Aug-16		in process
5.	fcabirol		0213		14-Apr-16		22-Aug-16		in process
6.	EDEN7		4161		20-May-16		18-Oct-16		in process		Application returned because of missing pages on passport copy => Resubmitted @OINP on 26-Sep-16
7.	aniclb		......		07-Jun-16		02-Sep-16		in process
8.	Damocles		2133		05-Jul-16		27-Sep-16		in process
9.	superfly		......		06-Jul-16		27-Sep-16		in process
10.	Aishach		1223		08-Jul-16		30-Sep-16		in process
11.	boguy		......		15-Jul-16		28-Sep-16		in process
12.	julientran		3131		18-Jul-16		19-Aug-16		in process
13.	mkayy89		......		20-Jul-16		in process		Pending
14.	Armovasa		2153		03-Aug-16		29-Sep-16		in process
15.	PonJoub		0731		08-Aug-16		No longer needed		Skipped		Received direct ITA in EE Profile from draw 45 (CRS 477)
16.	Riadh21		0621		10-Aug-16		30-Sep-16		in process
17.	Ivanover		......		18-Aug-16		30-Sep-16		in process
18.	wiliam2701		2174		24-Aug-16		04-Oct-16		in process		ECA Request from OINP on 04-Oct-16 => sent by WES on 05-Oct-16
19.	sofrofro		4163		26-Aug-16		06-Oct-16		in process
20.	maleeksha		2173		29-Aug-16		26-Sep-16		in process		Application returned due to missing name and date of birth at the back of photos => resubmitted @OINP on 23-Sep-2016
21.	Redlar		0121		05-Sep-16		03-Oct-16		in process
22.	nthuynh		1112		21-Sep-16		12-Oct-16		in process		ECA Request from OINP on 12-Oct-16
23.	deep_blue77		5125 + 5231		23-Sep-16		in process		Pending		ackage returned due to missing 1 page of passport copy on 03/10/2016 => Resubmitted @OINP on 07-Oct-16
24.	luc1992		2271		28-Sep-16		in process		Pending		Docs reached OINP mid Aug but returned 0n 20 Sep-16 due to missing picture (one) => Resubmitted on 28-Sep-16
25.	Aal_		2174		29-Sep-16		in process		Pending
26.	bingolion		......		07-Oct-16		in process		Pending		PT Notification of Interest from OINP on 28-Aug-16
27.	Christina4		......		in process		Pending		Pending		PT Notification of Interest from OINP on 06-Sep-16
28.	vensak		1225		in process		Pending		Pending		created EE Profile on 17-Oct-2016 and PT NoI on 19-10-16
29.	Dedicated		......		Awaiting NoI		Pending		Pending		Hoping to get ITA from with his current CRS (471). Modifying his profile in order to get OINP PT might jeopardize that for the moment.
30.	BlackJeans		......		Awaiting NoI		Pending		Pending		Awaiting PT Notification of Interest from OINP
31.	tanit		......		Awaiting NoI		Pending		Pending		Awaiting PT Notification of Interest from OINP
32.	betty44		......		Awaiting NoI		Pending		Pending		Has DELF level B2 and getting ready for TEF. NoI pending
33.	blackbear88		......		No EE Profile yet		Pending		Pending		TEF scheduled in April 2017 and EE profile to follow

 

[vensak]

Change me in documents in process as I have recieved my PT yesterday Damocles, Thanks a lot.


As for my ICAS disaster, back in February I did not do much research, I have just chosen one randomly. Secondly I mixed up the processing time with those for Education or high school - there it was 10 weeks. As the next possible language tests were only in April, I di not really mind. And only somewhere in June I have understood just how long it takes to go by ICAS. Unfortunatelly, that was hitting summer period where it was rather difficult to get anybody in my Universities to resend the documents to other organisations. And again from 25 weeks I was calculating middle of September rather than middle of October.
Anyway it is done and I have learned to do the research.
On the bright side I had time to check out lot of on this forum and on other websites and to understand much better how to walk in the system. So with that I can now start PNP process with Ontario. I am guessing that once that will be done, the federal part shall be really easy and fast (you need to send practicaly the same thing on federal level. All you add is medical and police certificates some federal application forms and thats it).

 

[Elrud]

Congrats Vensak! You're so lucky. Hopefully reforms will be introduced soon for express entry.

Any idea how much bonus points might be awarded under express entry. Can bonus points be awarded even if you put French as your second language as some people might score higher if they put English as first language?

Is the Ontario French stream open to any NOC?

Also is the PT NOI done automatically without staff intervention provided you meet the language benchmark and put French as your first language?

Thanks.

 

[Aal_]

Congrats Vensak! You're so lucky. Hopefully reforms will be introduced soon for express entry.

Any idea how much bonus points might be awarded under express entry. Can bonus points be awarded even if you put French as your second language as some people might score higher if they put English as first language?

Is the Ontario French stream open to any NOC?

Also is the PT NOI done automatically without staff intervention provided you meet the language benchmark and put French as your first language?

Thanks.

Noone knows anything about the bonus points yet.

And yes oinp french is open to any noc as long as you satisfy fsw or cec.

As far as I can tell it must be automated as most of us received the letter between 3 to 4. Not sure though.

 

[Elrud]

Noone knows anything about the bonus points yet.

And yes oinp french is open to any noc as long as you satisfy fsw or cec.

As far as I can tell it must be automated as most of us received the letter between 3 to 4. Not sure though.

Thanks; hope the bonus points will be enough to get ITA.

 

[superfly]

I have a different question now regarding passports.
My passport is newer than 2 years, but our law is requesting to always return old document to the police department (they will be distroyed after that).
So I got new passport in 2015 but I starded Canada planning only in 2016.
This said there is no way I could forward copies of my old passport. Was anybody else in similar situation and how did you solve it?
I have already found the exact law that is requesting to return old passport to the police Office (but only in Slovak).
Thank you in advance for any advice.

We have the same rule in my country, and I was in the same situation as you. Our old passport should be returned. I've attached a letter explaining that and shared the link. In my case it was in french already. what you can do is to share the original link is slovak and a translated link (using google translate). I believe this will be enough.

 

[superfly]

I saw in earlier posts that someone was referring to a webinar. Can you please share the YouTube link (if recorded). Can you share the title of the webinar? does anyone know who to get access to the future ones?

 

[Elrud]

I saw in earlier posts that someone was referring to a webinar. Can you please share the YouTube link (if recorded). Can you share the title of the webinar? does anyone know who to get access to the future ones?

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ClJ0Ce4yo&app=desktop

It is quite motivating.

 

[Damocles]

Change me in documents in process as I have recieved my PT yesterday Damocles, Thanks a lot.


As for my ICAS disaster, back in February I did not do much research, I have just chosen one randomly. Secondly I mixed up the processing time with those for Education or high school - there it was 10 weeks. As the next possible language tests were only in April, I di not really mind. And only somewhere in June I have understood just how long it takes to go by ICAS. Unfortunatelly, that was hitting summer period where it was rather difficult to get anybody in my Universities to resend the documents to other organisations. And again from 25 weeks I was calculating middle of September rather than middle of October.
Anyway it is done and I have learned to do the research.
On the bright side I had time to check out lot of on this forum and on other websites and to understand much better how to walk in the system. So with that I can now start PNP process with Ontario. I am guessing that once that will be done, the federal part shall be really easy and fast (you need to send practicaly the same thing on federal level. All you add is medical and police certificates some federal application forms and thats it).

Congratulation on your NOI. I told you that you will get it. I updated the list above

I am sure you will get it!

 

[Elrud]

Congratulation on your NoI I told you that you will get it. I updated the list above

Anyone who meet the CLB in the writing part, for the redaction it was quite confusing.

For each redaction, only 1 sheet was filled for the given no. of lines on which you can write. Did you exceed the given no. of lines and continue writing on the blank sheet at the back? I was wondering if someone write in big characters, the only 1 sheet given for each redaction would be filled very quickly. Any experience?